How To Manage Your Mother (SCARCE BRITISH HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ALYCE FAYE)

Cleese, Alyce Faye and Bates, Brian

ISBN 10: 1900512408 / ISBN 13: 9781900512404

Published by Metro, London, 1999

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VG+/VG+. First British Edition, First Printing in d/w not price clipped. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ALYCE FAYE CLEESE, without dedication or inscription on title-page. This book will transform your relationship with your mother. Drawing on exclusive interviews with people ranging from a circus lion tamer to a New York cab driver to well-known figures including Michael Palin, and Alyce Faye's husband John Cleese. With Appendix, Bibligraphy and Index. Light bruising to head of spine; else a very good plus copy, in a very good plus d/w, of a SCARCE first British edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ALYCE FAYE CLEESE. D/w now protected in a detachable, non-adhesive, clear sheaf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How To Manage Your Mother (SCARCE BRITISH HARDBACK FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ALYCE FAYE)
• Publisher: Metro, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900512408
• ISBN 13: 9781900512404
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First British Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author, Alyce Faye Cleese
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

"How to manage your mother" contains over 100 extensive interviews with characters as diverse as a circus lion tamer, a New York cab driver, a transvestite model and well-known figures from politics and the entertainment industry, including Michael Palin, John Cleese, General Colin Powell, Tom Selleck and Michael Winner. They all talk movingly and honestly about their relationship with their mother, from that first memory in the pram through to establishing an adult relationship and to dealing with terminal illness or death. This book is one of the first to confront adults' relationships with their mothers, and does so by drawing on the memories and emotions of the interviewees to analyse the archetypal secret lives of mothers. By enabling the readers to understand their mother, and come to terms with her, this book enables them to come to terms with themselves. Chapters stretch from babyhood ('First memories: mother as goddess') to adolescence ('The red dress: seeing the world through our mother's eyes') and to full adulthood ('Expectations' and 'Mother love'). Written throughout in non-technical language and concluding with a practical chapter on the ten proven ways to improve your relationship with your mother, "How to manage your mother" is a book that will revolutionise the way you think about your mother.

Review

"Alyce Faye Cleese embodies all the qualities associated with good mothering -- wisdom, compassion, generosity and warmth." (Sunday Express)

"A powerful, compelling book." (Robin Skynner)

"Does for mothers what Dian Fossey did for gorillas. A tremendous achievement." (Stephen Fry)